Questions | Please answer and bring any questions to our AYS Office Hours. We will discuss the homework together at that time.Read chapters three and four in Dr. Lad’s Textbook of Ayurveda.
Read chapters seven, eight, and nine in Dr. Frawley’s book, Yoga and Ayurveda.
Please outline an “Introduction to Ayurveda” workshop, approx 1 to 2 hours long, that you might give to teach yoga students the basics of Ayurveda. Make sure to include why it will be relevant to yoga students and how the science interacts with yoga science.
Please write a list of suggestions for building each of the three Vital Essences. Please make the list a series of actions/activities based on the list given in the handouts.
Questions: Bring any questions or comments about homework to our Office Hours.
1. What does the term Subdosha mean?
2. How do you understand the role of the Elements in both the Doshas and the Gunas?
3. How do the three Gunas relate to the mind?
4. What are the five forms of Vata?
5. Which form is most important in treating Vata?
6. What are the five forms of Pitta?
7. Which one is most important in treating Pitta?
8. What are the five forms of Kapha?
9. Which form is most important in treating Kapha?
10. Use three subdoshas to explain how we make clear/sattvic decisions.
11.Please define Prana, Tejas, and Ojas.
12. How are Prana, Tejas, and Ojas different from the Doshas in sustaining health?
13. What symptoms would you observe to assess that a student has “low ojas,” “low tejas,” or “low prana”?
14. What asana and what pranayama would be most supportive for pacifying decreasing/balancing Vata? Please list at least three asanas and write the “how” in teaching.
15. What asana and what pranayama would be most supportive for pacifying/balancing Pitta? Please list at least three asanas and write the “how” in teaching.
16. What asana, and what pranayama would be most supportive for pacifying/balancing Kapha? Please list at least three asanas and write the “how” in teaching.
Please continue your daily journal. Notice the vital essences in your daily life. Consider how you feel about engaging in your day with sattva, rajas, or tamas. Continue to “see” the elements in all things and begin to write notations of the qualities (gunas) that lead you to assess someone as having a particular constitution.